Children never fail to get the joke and this incredible situation is usually met with howls of laughter. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr is thrilling for young children and also has enough warmth to ensure that the reader feels safe and able to enjoy the antics of the greedy tiger. Earlier this year, Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis said: "I remember asking Judith Kerr if the tiger symbolised the 1960s sexual revolution where normal mores and suburban life became upended by this wild and exotic creature.

But producer and joint managing director of Lupus Films, Ruth Fielding, said getting an A-list cast on board was the easy part. As a result, many readers have suggested the tiger who comes to tea represents the Nazis, who disrupted the quiet, suburban lifestyle Judith was used to. The book was also translated into Hebrew, with the title ״Hatigris Sheba Lishtot Te” (הטיגריס שבא לשתות תה). As he went out, I was going to say, 'There you are, nothing's happened' and my mother just gave me a terrible look and so I stopped. The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ is a well-loved children’s story written by author and illustrator Judith Kerr.Her father was welcomed back to Germany as a hero in 1948, but on the night he arrived, he suffered a stroke.

Either way, we’re here to help you bring the book and characters to life using our collection of ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ activities! The work, published in 1968, has been read by several generations and tells the story of a tiger who invites himself to tea and eats and drinks all the food and water in Sophie's house. She said her husband Nigel Kneale was away making a film and "it felt a bit lonely and we wished somebody would come. Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen has drawn parallels between the book and the author’s life.The original artwork for the book is held by Seven Stories, a children's literature centre in the UK. Alongside our 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' pictures for sequencing, we have an array of engaging resources that children are sure to enjoy. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr is an impossibly possible story that captures the essence of childhood. Each of our 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' pictures for sequencing shows an illustration from the story. Children revel in delight at the idea of such a naughty (and potentially dangerous) guest gorging himself on the entire contents of the house.

We’ve teamed up with the book’s publisher, Harper Collins, to create this range of exciting and engaging resources. They realised the impending threat from Hitler and Nazi Germany, and publicly criticised the regime.Read and Create is a personal blog, featuring children's literature and the play, crafts, outings and food inspired by stories.

Invite children to talk about and retell this classic children’s story using our 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' Sequencing Cards. After the tiger leaves, Sophie's father comes home from work and suggests that they all go out and have a lovely meal in a cafe. A Brazilian version, under the Portuguese title O tigre que veio para o chá da tarde, was also released.A television adaptation of the book aired in the UK on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 2019 and featured the voices of David Walliams as the narrator, David Oyelowo as the tiger, Clara Ross as Sophie, Maria Darling as the boy from the grocer's, Tamsin Greig as Sophie's mother, Benedict Cumberbatch as Sophie's father and Paul Whitehouse as the milkman. He eats all the food in the saucepans and the fridge, all the packets and tins in the cupboards, all the orange juice, all Daddy’s beer and all the water in the tap! Responsibly sourced using 100% recycled materials for the outer and filling, it has been created to support WWF’s ambitious initiative to double the number of tigers in the wild. But until her death, she was heavily involved in the production process, personally selecting Lupus Films from a range of companies who wanted to adapt it for TV. Soon, Sophie and her mother are joined for tea by a kind tiger who drinks all the tea before eating all the food in the house and then drinking everything, even draining all the water from the taps.